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Mar 16
With an uncertain battlefield position, Russia has intensified hybrid operations to shape European public opinion. A key element is the spread of narratives portraying Ukraine as using โ€œenergy blackmailโ€ against Europe, often echoed by politically sympathetic actors. ๐ŸงตThread: Image
2/ Since the full-scale invasion began, Russian missile and drone strikes have targeted Ukraineโ€™s energy system, damaging power plants, gas facilities, and transmission networks nationwide. Ukraine has lost about 11.5 GW of capacity, with damage reportedly exceeding $24.8 billion
3/ The war has also affected energy transport infrastructure. Ukrainian oil facilities have been attacked more than 400 times since the invasion began. On 27 January 2026, a strike damaged equipment working for the Druzhba pipeline near Brody in western Ukraine.
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Mar 16
๐Ÿšจ BREAKING: Procrastination isnโ€™t laziness. Itโ€™s a broken system!

Claude can rebuild your habits, focus, and momentum.

Here are 10 Claude Opus 4.6 prompts to stop procrastinating & execute๐Ÿ‘‡ Image
1. The Procrastination Diagnostician

Prompt: โ€œAct as a behavioral coach. Iโ€™m procrastinating on [TASK]. Ask me 7 sharp questions to diagnose the real cause (fear, unclear next step, perfectionism, low energy, boredom, overwhelm, no deadline). Then name the root cause in 1 sentence, give the best fix, give a 5-minute start action, and create a simple 30-minute plan that gets momentum.โ€
2. The 5-Minute Starter

Prompt: โ€œTurn [TASK] into a 5-minute starter action that feels stupidly easy. No planning, no research, just motion. Then give the next 3 micro-steps, define what โ€˜done todayโ€™ looks like, and give me a one-line script to say to myself before starting.โ€
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Mar 16
Pope Leo asked me to meet him in a private audience at the Vatican today

I presented him with documents and evidence detailing decades of abuse inside Opus Dei and urged him to launch a full independent investigation into the group

A THREAD ๐Ÿงต Image
He invited me after learning of the allegations made in my book OPUS, which he described as โ€œa rigorous piece of workโ€

We spent more than forty minutes talking โ€“ just the two of us โ€“ and he asked a series of informed questions Image
The book is the result of years of research, hundreds of hours talking with members โ€“ and access to secret internal documents

I detail evidence of child grooming, enslavement, human trafficking, breaching the seal of confession - and much much more

a.co/d/0dgXKVkS
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Mar 16
1/ Leaked orders from the Russian Ministry of Defence show that Telegram is being banned immediately for operational use by Russian forces in Ukraine, with soldiers reportedly facing being sent to their deaths in assaults if they are found not to be complying. โฌ‡๏ธ Image
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2/ The orders, published by 'Unmanned Brotherhood' on Telegram, are intended to "counter enemy technical reconnaissance means, close possible leakage channels and prevent the disclosure of information about the actions of troops in the area of โ€‹โ€‹a special military operation".
3/ They impose a strict ban on the use by soldiers of Telegram, which is now to be treated as a "gross disciplinary offence":
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Mar 16
๐Ÿงต thread of annotations i made on this fic because i love it so muchhh
#akotsk #daeron #daeronthedrunken #maekarlings archiveofourown.org/works/80801931โ€ฆImage
him with daella (lets kill ourselves btw) Image
more daella (i just found this scene really cute) Image
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Mar 16
9 Moves That Instantly Raise Your Social Value:

#1. Enter rooms slower than everyone else
People with high social value do 9 things differently.

Most are counterintuitive.

#7 will make you uncomfortable.

But they work instantly:
#1. They enter rooms slower than everyone else

Watch low-status people: They rush in, scanning for approval.

High-value people pause at thresholds for 2-3 seconds.

It's a dominance signal inherited from primates. The alpha always surveys before entering.

Your brain reads this as power.
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Mar 16
gnomes say it all a test
they told me, so...
testing if humans can join their empires
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Mar 16
The Texas โ€œantifaโ€ terrorism case didnโ€™t start in a courtroom or an ICE facility. It started almost 10 years earlier, with one of the most expansive disinformation campaigns Iโ€™ve ever covered.

Hereโ€™s how that story was built.

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This is part 1 of a series looking back at a decade-long effort by the Trump administration and its allies in right-wing media to criminalize dissent by manufacturing a terrorist threat. They got their strategy straight from the fascist playbook.

weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/how-the-trumโ€ฆImage
This disinformation campaign had it all: Fake social media accounts, right-wing extremists posing as โ€œantifaโ€ to incite violence, coordinated media narratives, fear-mongering content planted by law enforcement, and more.

Now, the threat they manufactured is being used as evidence in federal court. The Texas case is the first but certainly wonโ€™t be the last.
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Mar 16
35 years ago today, Latasha Harlins, 15, was fatally shot by a Korean shop owner, Soon Ja Du, over a bottle of orange juice, it became a major spark for the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.

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On March 16, 1991 Latasha Harlinโ€™s short life came to a violent end in the midst of racial tensions in Los Angeles, California, and became a major spark for the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Image
By the late 1980s, racial tensions were high in South Los Angeles, and especially between Korean storeowners and Black American residents of the city.
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Mar 16
1/13 Fed Governor Bowman just dropped her US bank reform blueprint โ€“ on top of the โ€œeasyโ€ headline youโ€™ve all seen (less capital), thereโ€™s some pretty important stuff in there. A thread.
2) Something most analysts missed is that Bowman clearly wants assets BACK inside the regulated banking system. She said it multiple times. The shadow banking era had a good run, but the sheriff is back in town.
3/13 Non-bank lenders, private credit funds, money market vehicles โ€” she's not naming names but the subtext is clear: if you're doing bank-like things outside a bank, the new rules are designed to make that less attractive. The moat is being rebuilt.
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Mar 16
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โ€ž[...] Iran [...] has more than 5,000 naval mines in its arsenal, according to estimates by the Defense Intelligence Agency. And Iran is beginning to deploy them, U.S. officials said.
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It could be hugely expensive, and dangerous, for the U.S. Navy to have to conduct what would most likely be a weekslong mine-clearing operation in the Strait of Hormuz, according to military officials.
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Still, mining is a double-edged sword. Laying mines in the strait could prevent Iranโ€™s own oil โ€” and the desperately needed revenues it provides โ€” from making it out of the Gulf.โ€

March 13, 2026

๐•ฟ๐–๐–Š ๐•น๐–Š๐–œ ๐–„๐–”๐–—๐– ๐•ฟ๐–Ž๐–’๐–Š๐–˜ (@nytimes) archive.is/20260313092102โ€ฆ
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Mar 16
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โ€žA video verified by The NYT shows ballistic missiles being launched from Bahrain in the direction of Iran, in what appears to be the first confirmed instance of an attack on the Islamic Republic originating from a Persian Gulf country since the war began.
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Bahrain is home to the U.S. Navyโ€™s Fifth Fleet. It is unclear from the video [1] alone whether the U.S. or Bahraini military fired the missiles. Defense experts who have reviewed the footage say that at least one of the missiles was fired from American-made equipment.โ€
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March 13, 2026

[1] @EGYOSINT x.com/i/status/20302โ€ฆ

Source:

๐•ฟ๐–๐–Š ๐•น๐–Š๐–œ ๐–„๐–”๐–—๐– ๐•ฟ๐–Ž๐–’๐–Š๐–˜ (@nytimes) archive.is/oldest/https:/โ€ฆ
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